Health differentials among Australian children

Documents health differentials between groups of Australian Children aged 0-14 years and characterised by various indicators including: sex, family, composition, family income, parental education, parental employment status, socioeconomic status, State or Territory, metropolitan or non-metropolitan, ethnicity, and place of residence.

Summary

Australian children from disadvantaged backgrounds have worse health, as measured by a wide range of indicators including perinatal outcome, infant mortality, child mortality, illness and accident rates, and health service use. These differentials are apparent whether socioeconomic disadvantage is measured based on parental income, education, employment status, marital status or socioeconomic disadvantage of area.